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I'm Tim Franks.
We're beginning with a visit to Washington, which,
even by Donald Trump's all-caps convention busting standards, has been eye-goggling.
The visit has been from the Saudi Crown Prince and the de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman.
The sound of a trumpet voluntary greeting the crown prince at the White House.
That was on Tuesday and the formalities have continued today in what's expected to be slightly more regulation fashion with an investment summit in Washington.
Although even there the sums being talked about are notionally vast.
A promise of one trillion dollars of Saudi funds being poured into the US.
But it was what unfolded on Tuesday, which continues to grab the headlines,
the very public rehabilitation of a leader who Washington,
and for a time the previous administration, had treated, indeed declared, to be a pariah.
That was following the murder of the dissident Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents at the Kingdom's consulate in Istanbul in 2018,
and which the CIA concluded that the crown prince had almost certainly known about in advance and approved.
Mohammed bin Salman's return to the top table has not been sudden,
but it reached its apogee on Tuesday with a welcome and an honouring as lavish as could be,
and an aggressive defence by President Trump in response to this question from the ABC reporter,